I used to love KDE 1 and 2, since KDE 3 they've adopted this really bland interface I can't push myself to like. It's like there's only three available colours: light grey, light desaturated blue, and white. The whole desktop is a desaturated grey-bluish interface with grey icons that doesn't have any personality, feels cool, bland and insipid. And when it's not grey, it's icons without any cohesion with the rest of the system using all colours of the spectrum, giving them a Fisher-Price look. It feels as inviting as if it were the user interface for a medical device, smelling of bleach and trying its hardest not to have any personality whatsoever.

One can dislike GNOME how much they want but at least there is a soul to the design, like there was a soul to the original Windows 95 design. At least it used colours with more than 10% saturation.

I really wish KDE would stop adding features and knobs and more settings panels and just adopted an OPINIONATED design guideline. Choose a brand colour, explore the palette a little bit that's not grey and blue grey and white grey.

I can't even imagine using anything else at this point.